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The Secret Weapon: Salesforce Optimizer Report

Introduction

From the latest Spring’17 release, Salesforce once again delivers a ‘secret admin weapon’: The Optimizer!

Salesforce Optimizer Report is a feature that evaluates your salesforce instances to determine how your company uses certain Salesforce features, then identifies ways that you can improve them.

The Optimizer focuses on determining ways to simplify customizations and drive adoption of features. This reports gives you concrete recommendations for how you can improve your Salesforce experience. Just to be clear, the Optimizer only has access to your metadata, not customer data.

With the busy business-as-usual and all different enhancement projects your organization may have, maintaining a suite of features across your org can be, let’s say, intense at times. We have spoken before about The Agile Mindset, things change quickly, to stay competitive we need to inspect & adapt so we can become more efficient. We need to continuously improve, as only learning organizations will keep up with the future.

– Email deliverability is to be set as “All Email” (worth to keep in mind for Sandboxes environments).

– IPs used: 52.2.2.209, 52.203.195.34, 52.200.207.131, 52.72.119.132

Running the Report

It’s as easy as 1-2-3, navigate to the Setup menu and search on the quick search box Optimizer:

Once the analysis is completed you will received the generated PDF report straight to your inbox. Salesforce has included a great deal of features and customisations in this first release of the Optimizer, but it may not include all of your Org customisations. You can look to find suggestions for Fields, Apex Triggers, Page Layouts, Report Typers, Validation Rules, Workflow Rules, Sharing Rules and Administrator Permissions.

Once you get the email and report, run through the recommendations and put together a priority list on how you can ‘optimize’ your salesforce org!